Dingana bowkeri
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| Dingana bowkeri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Genus: | Dingana |
| Species: | D. bowkeri |
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| Dingana bowkeri (Trimen, 1870)[1] | |
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Bowker’s Widow (Dingana bowkeri) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, in the eastern Cape, Lesotho and Richmond and Cradock in the Cape province.
The wingspan is 50-55 mm for males and 48-54 mm for females. Adults are on wing from November to February (with a peak from December to January). There is one generation per year[2]
The larvae probably feed on various Poaceae species, probably including Merxmuellera species. Larvae have been reared on Pennisetum clandestinum.
Subspecies
- Dingana bowkeri bowkeri (north-eastern Cape, Natal, Lesotho, Transvaal, Orange Free State)
- Dingana bowkeri bella van Son, 1955 (central Cape: Richmond)
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